by Harold Taylor | Jan 5, 2020 | General Time Management, The Brain
If you want to strengthen your self-control or any of the executive skills mentioned in previous blogs, you will have to pace yourself. Too much exertion, fatigue and information overload tend to weaken the executive skills and leaves you more susceptible to...
by Harold Taylor | Jul 16, 2019 | The Brain
Let your entire brain do its thing. According to Gayatri Devi, author of A Calm Brain (Plume, 2012), your core brain, also known as the primitive brain, has the ability to quickly and accurately read and respond to the emotions of others. Your rational frontal...
by Harold Taylor | May 23, 2019 | Memory, The Brain
Is memory declining faster than ever? There are many causes of dementia and memory loss declining faster as we grow older; but I believe the two main ones, both involving brain activity, are outlined below. In the past when we needed to know something or solve some...
by Harold Taylor | Feb 8, 2019 | General Time Management, The Brain
You are your habits How much of your life is habit? Charles Duhigg, in his book The Power of Habit, quotes a Duke University researcher who in 2006 found that more than 40% of the actions of people performed each day were not actually decisions, but habits. More...
by Harold Taylor | Nov 28, 2018 | The Brain
Feeling empathy for another person is being able to know what the other person is feeling or going through even though you are not sharing the source of those feelings or emotions at that time. For example, when someone suffers a loss or injures their hand, you can...
by Harold Taylor | Oct 11, 2018 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
In 2016 I wrote and posted here an article on the power of music that summarized over a dozen benefits of music. It included its beneficial impact on stress, creativity, pain, depression, healing, sleep, fatigue, memory, performance, blood pressure and more. But music...
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